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There has been a lot of talking in the last two days about drinking coffee while driving a car in the streets of Greece. I cannot even recall how this controversial issue arose, but the Greek Police uploaded a video with the title “Hands on the Wheel” on Monday afternoon. …

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Tax authorities in Crete fined a nails technician with 35,000 euros for offering services without paying taxes. Accompanied by police, a team of the independent Public Revenue (AADE) was  carrying out controls aiming to combat tax evasion on the island of Crete last week, were carried out last week in …

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Greece’s Data Protection Authority has fined the Migration 8 Asylum Ministry with of €175,000 for the systems “Kentavros” and “Iperion” for the surveillance of  asylum seekers. The DPA found violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (which things don’t seem to be going too well with lately). The fine …

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A 742,000-euro fine was imposed on the food company Ainos, a seller of frozen vegetables, at the orders of Development Minister Kostas Skrekas on Monday. € According to a ministry announcement, the fine was imposed for violation of article 54 of legislation passed in July 2023 for curbing unjustifiable profiteering, …

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The owner of the carriage horse that collapsed and died while pulling a tourist carriage through a downtown street on Corfu on early Thursday afternoon has been arrested and fined 30,000 euros for animal abuse. At the same time, animal welfare societies stage a protest on Corfu on Friday morning …

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An elderly woman was fined with 120,000 euros administrative penalty by the police in Volos for dumping four new born kittens in a garbage bin. She had put them in a tightly closed plastic bag which she threw to the bin near her home on Monday night. The 75-year-old woman …

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Rail operator Hellenic Train SA was fined 300,000 euros by Greece’s Railroad Regulatory Authority (RAS) for stranding 820 passengers in harsh weather conditions on January 24, when five trains were stuck on the major north-south train route of Greece. Following a months-long review of Hellenic Train, a subsidiary of Ferrovie …

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A 67-year-old man was arrested on the island of Crete and fined with 15,600 euros for the torture of his dog with an electroshock collar. It was another resident of the area near Heraklio who filmed the dog’s abuse and denounced the incident to police. A video posted on social …

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A gas station on the popular touristic island of Santorini was fine with 5,000 euro for fuel profiteering, the Ministry of Development and Development and Investments said on Monday. The fine was imposed after control checks by members of the Interagency for Market Control (DIMEA) who found out that the …

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Greece’s highest court, the Council of State has ruled that the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 for those aged over 60 is “constitutionally tolerable” and the monthly fine of 10o euros is a “reasonable motive.” According to a statement issued by the President of the Council of State, the judges participating …

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Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has been called to decide whether the 100-euro monthly fine imposed to unvaccinated citizens over 60 is legal and conform with the country’s Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights. Several citizens over 60, unvaccinated against Covid-19, appealed to the CoS demanding …

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Only 14 percent of unvaccinated Greeks aged over 60 have paid the administrative fine imposed by the government in January, according to data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). Holdouts were fined 100 euros a month (in January the fine was 50 euros as the measure went into …

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Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga said on Wednesday that the fine of 100 euros for unvaccinated citizens over 60 years old will be abolished next month. The fine was practically making mandatory the vaccination against COVId-19 for citizens over a certain age. Speaking to Skai TV on Wednesday, Gaga confirmed …

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The Greek government proceeded with the fine on unvaccinated citizens over 60 years old, despite the economic bottleneck due to the energy prices and the global instability due to the Russian war in Ukraine. The fines for 317,962 people over 60 for the month of January have been booked, and …

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The Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said on Wednesday that it is imposing a fine of 2 million euros to the managing companies of the ring highway Attiki Odos for the shutdown during the snowstorm last month. IT is the highest fine permitted by the law. Minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided …

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Greece will have to pay around 127 million euros to the European Union this year due to its low performance in recycling plastic packaging. The fine is aimed at increasing the recycling of plastics across the EU. According to a study on the role of plastics in the circular economy …

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Greece’s telecommunications giant mobile phone operator Cosmote and parent company OTE have been slapped with fines of over 9 million euros by Greece’s Data Protection Authority over a breach of user records in September 2020. The Greek watchdog fined Cosmote 6 million euros for failing to protect a file containing …

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Anti-vaxxers have sent a fine order amounting almost 1.8 trillion euros was sent to the governor of South Aegean, Giorgos Hatzimarkos and members of the Regional Council. The payment order should be settled within 20 days, the document notes. The fine order was sent by the so-called “native indigenous Greeks”, …

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Anti-vaxxer parents who do not send their children to school will be punished with up to 2 years imprisonment and fines, the Greek Education Ministry ruled in an amendment submitted to the Palriament late on Tuesday. The tough measure comes as parents and guardians who oppose vaccinations against Covid-19 and …

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Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday that vaccination against Ccovid-19 becomes mandatory for all those aged over 60 years old. Those who remain unvaccinated will be fined with 100 euros on a monthly basis. Speaking at a cabinet meeting the Greek PM said that there are currently 580,000 …

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